Rural Resources, Insights, and Collaborations by Aspen CSG and Partners
Insights and recommendations to do rural development and rural health differently—moving collectively toward equitable rural development with projects grounded in place and a people-centered vision of community impact.
WealthWorks
A new book by WealthWorks coach Shanna Ratner that explores building wealth locally and asset-based economic development.
Housing Can't Wait
Housing Can’t Wait is a grassroots initiative to address the need for immediate single-family homes for residents who lost their houses in the devastating 2022 Eastern Kentucky flooding.
Community Commons
The Seven Vital Conditions for Well-Being is a useful framework for conceptualizing holistic well-being and the Conditions that give rise to it, as well as identifying levers for community change and improvement.
Center for Research on Disability
The Annual Disability Statistics Compendium, Annual Report on People With Disabilities, the Build Your Own Statistics tool, and infographics gather disability statistics published by many federal agencies into one place. They’re helpful for lawmakers and others who are working on laws or policies about disabilities, and for those writing grants for programs for people with disabilities.
WealthWorks
WealthWorks for Your Region: An Introduction provides an overview of four primary components of the WealthWorks approach. This PDF focuses on Module 1: Explore Regional Wealth Building.
Aspen Institute - Employment & Jobs
A brief from Aspen on strategies and practices implemented by Colorado’s Employee Ownership Office to better understand how employee ownership can be supported and grown.
Forum for Community Solutions
The Youth and Young Adult Wellbeing Measure Project Report provides insight and data from the youth and young adult researchers and displays each cultural design team’s research process to identify key areas of well-being within their culture and traditions. It also identifies common themes of well-being across the three cultural contexts. This report highlights the origin and milestones of the first stage of this project, and more importantly, it promotes and encourages the field of youth-centered programming to center young leaders as experts in their lived experience.
RCAC
New America
Drawing on original research, this report offers a clear case for why guaranteed public paid leave policies should be considered a social determinant of health for rural people just as access to health care facilities and other economic stability indicators are. Paid leave could improve the health, wellbeing, and economic security of rural workers and families, and increase the economic competitiveness of America’s rural communities.
WealthWorks
Head over to the WealthWorks website to read success stories from communities from across the country.
National Rural Health Resource Center
"This podcast series brings together a variety of voices to elaborate on the steps rural hospitals can take to implement sustainable health equity programs and efforts. "
WealthWorks
WealthWorks on how wealth-building is not just about increasing wealth. It must include making sure those stocks of capital stay in place and that people, firms, organizations and communities in the region can make decisions about how they are used and invested in the future.
